About Giovanni Battista Soria
Lived 1581 – 1651 (aged 69–70). Giovanni Battista Soria was an Italian architect.
Façade of Santa Caterina a Magnanapoli in Rome, with the Torre delle Milizie behind. Giovanni Battista Soria (1581 – 22 November 1651) was an Italian architect who lived and worked mostly in Rome.
Tha façades of the church he designed were influenced by the style of Jacopo Barozzi da Vignola and Carlo Maderno.
Soria designed the fountain (c. 1630) at the entrance to the walled garden at the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas, Angelicum
Works San Gregorio Magno al Celio San Carlo ai Catinari Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome Discovery of Borghese Hermaphroditus San Crisogono Santa Caterina a Magnanapoli San Giuseppe dei Falegnami
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Italian architect (1581–1651)
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Giovanni Battista Soria was born in 1581 in Rome.
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Giovanni Battista Soria died on 22 November 1651 in Rome.
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Giovanni Battista Soria was an architect.
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Giovanni Battista Soria was Italian.
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